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Sefer ha-seder ha-ḳaṭan ... etc.

by: Avicenna, 980-1037

Publication date: 1490

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: Medicine--Early works to 1800 Codices 15th century, Medicine, Arab Abridgements Italy, Medicine, Medieval Translations (documents) Jewish, Jews--Italy--History--15th century Treatises Document, Manuscripts, Hebrew--15th century Science -- Medicine, Manuscripts, Renaissance Paper

Collection: openn; upenn; americana

Contributor: University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language: Hebrew

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 469. Italy, 1490. Copies of letters of the Finzi family (f. 1r-12v), including reference to Abraham Cohen or Abraham Arie ben Benjamin Portaleone, possibly also known as Abraham ben David Portaleone, a famous physician of Mantua; homiletical comments on the Biblical story of Joseph (f. 13r-14v); and an anonymous translation from Arabic into Hebrew of an abridgment of Avicenna's Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (Canon), which begins with a list of human limbs and their qualities and proceeds to the middle of the third chapter (f. 15r-19v).

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